I like the "redundant" sentence. I like the _Unsigned idea, but there
are lots of old files "in the wild" that don't have that attribute.
This raises another question in my mind. To what extent does the current
version of the document need to give homage to old usages? If your file
says it uses CF 1.5, I wouldn't expect it to follow CF 1.7. So does the
CF 1.7 or 1.8 document need to contain "grandfather" language (things
that used to be, or not be, but that are different in the current version)?
Grace and peace,
Jim
On 9/22/17 7:49 AM, Signell, Richard wrote:
lookin at the NUG, how about saying:
In file types that don't offer native support for unsigned types,
integer or byte variables that are to be interpreted as unsigned must
have the attribute _Unsigned = "true".
On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 1:10 AM, Chris Barker <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
LGTM.
"One byte numeric data should be stored using the byte
or unsigned byte data type."
It too is copied from CF 1.7, and I think its intent was to tell
people to store 1-byte numeric data as type byte not type char.
With that rationale, if the sentence was in 1.7 then
it should probably be in 1.8,
yup --it's clear to me, and not annoyingly redundant.
The truth is that char type IS used a lot on old C code for
numeric data.
-CHB
although I'll go with
the consensus.
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